Rummets Betydelse I Professionella Samtal

Sammanfattning: In a commission on behalf of Socialstyrelsen by Maskrosbarn 2017, children and adolescents talk about how rooms that are bare and sterile makes it hard to talk about intimate matters. Self-disclosure is a term that signifies people's ability to open up, and early studies show that self-disclosure can be related to the physical environment.      The aim of this study was to find out social workers' opinions on the significance of the physical environment in conversations. We wanted to know if the environment surrounding them when meeting clients/patients affects the conversation. This qualitative study uses data from interviews with seven social workers. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed. The data was coded and categorized by themes that appeared. Our results are based on five subjects who were inclined to believe that the physical environment affected the interaction between them and their clients/patients, and two subjects who were ambivalent about whether the surroundings had an effect on the interaction or not.     Themes appearing in the analysis were positive and negative factors of the environment, communication and power dynamics. Positive factors of the environment according to social workers are a sense of being sheltered, dimmed or natural lightning, comfortable furniture and that the room is used for the purpose only. Negative factors are clinical lighting and surroundings, uncomfortable furniture, bad ventilation and poor sound-proofing. When it comes to communication we found that some factors in the environment improved interaction and self-disclosure and some worsened it, according to the social workers. The results also analyze the dynamics of power between social workers and their clients/patients regarding the physical environment.